This important Benedictine monastery was built on a small island, of the same name, by Andrea Palladio. It is designed around the church and two cloisters. Since 1951 it has been run by the Giorgio Cini Foundation.

In September, to coincide with the opening of the Dialoghi di San Giorgio, this year on the theme Inheriting the past. Traditions, shifts, betrayals and innovations, the large work entitled The Wedding at Cana- now in Paris - painted by Paolo Veronese for the refectory of the Benedictine monastery in San Giorgio, will be back in Venice after 210 years.